Cord-cutter



V. E. PETERSON.

CORD CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10,1918.

1,349,627, 7 Patented Aug. 17, 1920.

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vrcronn. rnrnnson, or mnmn'aroms, MINNESOTA,

CORD-CUTTER.

Application filed July 10, 1918. Serial No. 244,215.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR E. PETERSON, a citizen of the United States residing at Mlnneapolis, in the county of Ifennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cord- Cutters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to provide an extremely simple and highly efficient cord cutter that may be either held by hand or rigidly secured to a fixed support.

To the above end, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, whic illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a front elevation illustrating the invention, by means of full and broken lines, secured in two different positions to a table top;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. l; and

Fig. 3 is a view of the cord cutter with illustrating the securing bolts in section.

The numeral 4 indicates a table top to which the cord cutter is rigidly secured and which cord cutter comprises two flat duplicate rectangular clamping members, preferably cut from fiber sheets. Each clamping member 5 is bifurcated at one of its ends and, when the clamping members are placed one upon the other, the coincident blfurcations afford a flaring notch 6, which extends substantially two-thirds of the. full length of said clamping members.

Interposed between the clamping memhers 5, 1s a safety razor blade 7 with double,

cutting edges and having a pair of bores 8.

In the prongs of the clamplng members 5, at one side of the notch 6, is a pair of bores 9 which are alincd with the bores 8 in the blade 7. The bores 9 are arranged to position the blade 7. with one of its cutting edges extending obliquely across the not 6 and with its other cutting edge covered and protected 'by the clamping members 5.

A pair of nut-equipped stove bolts 10 is inserted through the alined bores 8 and 9 to connect the clamping members 5 and secure the blade 7 rigidly-in position therebetween. When the exposed cutting edge of the blade 7 becomes dull, said blade may be reversed to expose the other edge thereof.

In the opposite end of the clamping members 5 from the notch 6, are two pairs of al ned bores 11, through which is inserted a palr of screws 12 for securing the cord cutter in an upright position to the table top 4, as shown in Fig. 1. To secure the cord cutter in a horizontal position, as

shown by broken lines in Fig. 1, one of the screws 12 is passed through one of the al ned pairs of bores 11 and the other of said screws 1s passed through a pair of alined bores 13 in the prongs of the clamping members 5, at the opposite side of the notch 6 from the bolts 10. By these same screws 12, the cord cutter can be secured in a depending position or in a reverse horizontal position from that shown in Fig. 1.

The clamping members cover the blade '7 in such a manner that it is impossible for an operator to cut himself thereon, and, when one blade is worn out, another old safety razor blade may be substituted therefor. By the use of old safety razor blades, it is ossible to produce a cord cutter of the highest quality at extremely low cost. The above described cord cutter has, in actual usage, proven highly efficient for the purpose had in view.

.What I claim is A cord cutter comprising a pair of bifurcated clamping members arranged the one upon the other to bring their bifurcations into coincident relation to afford a single notch, a rectangular blade having on one of its longitudinal edges a straight cutting edge and also having a' palr of bores, and

' fastening devices arranged to enter the s VICTOR E. PETERSON.

Witnesses V y EVA E. Kome, F. D. MnRonAN'r.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pat t d u 7 1920' 

